On Thu, 31 Oct 2019, Kevin Szabo wrote: > Newbie here, so I don't know how the group votes on topics so please > excuse if this is the wrong method. > > I would love a Git fundamentals talk. I've use SCCS RCS CVS > Subversion PLS Clearcase etc, but never had the foundations course > on Git. I think it would be useful for me to help make the mental > map between the various version control systems just to explain the rationale behind my thinking, i was one of the pre-publication reviewers for both editions of ORA's book "version control with git" by jon loeliger, the second edition of which can be found here (check the acknowledgements :-): http://file.allitebooks.com/20160207/Version%20Control%20with%20Git,%202nd%20Edition.pdf when i started to review the first edition lo those many years ago, the current chapter 4 was not there, the book went straight to what is now chapter 5. i told the author that i think, at that point in the book, he *really* needed to explain the underlying architecture (particularly the object store); otherwise, readers would not understand the underlying effect of subsequent commands. i was fairly pushy about that, and even gave jon a detailed outline of what i thought the chapter should look like. he went away for a couple of months, and came back with something fairly close to the chapter 4 that's in there now, and that chapter is what i cover during the morning of my 1-day intro git class. my position is that if you don't understand git objects and their relation, you will never truly understand git. and that's all i have to say about that. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org